Three major films out in the UK this week! We start with a review of the new Marvel film Black Panther. At 11m45s, we review the stunningly beautiful Giullermo Del Toro-directed, Oscar-nominated adult fairytale The Shape Of Water. Finally, at 18m10s, we review the mother-daughter relationship dramedy, Lady Bird, starring Saoirse Ronan, and directed by Greta Gerwig – both of whom have been Oscar nominated.

A short spoiler-free film review of Amma Asante’s new political romance A United Kingdom. The film is based on a true story and stars Rosamund Pike (Gone Girl) and David Oyelowo (Selma) as a London typist who marries an African King to the objection of both their families and the British government.

An 8 minute spoiler-free movie review of the glossy screen adaptation of Colm Toibin’s much loved novel of a young woman (Saoirse Ronan) who leaves 1950s Ireland for a new life in America. The dramatic tension is whether she will fully commit to her new life and love (Emory Cohen) or be pulled back to the life she knows and an Irish suitor (Domnhall Gleeson) despite small-town gossip.

Out in the USA on November 4th and in the UK and Ireland on November 6th. A full written review can be found at http://www.bina007.com.

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A 10 minute spoiler free review of the charming historical romantic drama, A Little Chaos, directed by Alan Rickman. Rickman plays a weary King Louis XIV who has commissioned a landscape gardener played by Matthias Schoenaerts to design the formal gardens for his new palace at Versailles. But both men are charmed by a female gardener called Sabine (Kate Winslet) who takes a more organic, wild, chaotic approach to gardens, and life.

A 10 minute spoiler-free review of the World War One romantic drama Testament of Youth, based on the beloved memoirs of voluntary nurse Vera Britain, starring Alicia Vikander as Vera and Game of Thrones’ Kit Harrington as her first love Roland.